Arabic dialect in Dubai airport and Emirates airlines

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Re: Arabic dialect in Dubai airport and Emirates airlines

Postby Hash » Mon Sep 12, 2022 8:57 pm

Of course, it's MSA.
Local dialects are never used in formal announcements or texts, especially the peripheral ones like the Emirati dialect. Even in Egypt, they use MSA in metro, airlines, train stations, etc.
By the way, there's no such thing as Gulf dialect, every region has its own dialect.
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Re: Arabic dialect in Dubai airport and Emirates airlines

Postby Saim » Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:54 pm

Yeah the fact that it's internally diverse doesn't mean it doesn't exist, as long as all the varieties are more related to each other than to other varieties (of say, Iraqi or Najdi). By the same logic you could say that "Arabic [or any comparable language] doesn't exist".
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Re: Arabic dialect in Dubai airport and Emirates airlines

Postby Hash » Sun Sep 18, 2022 4:46 am

Saim wrote:Yeah the fact that it's internally diverse doesn't mean it doesn't exist, as long as all the varieties are more related to each other than to other varieties (of say, Iraqi or Najdi). By the same logic you could say that "Arabic [or any comparable language] doesn't exist".

The so-called Gulf dialect is a political attempt to create a common dialect for the members of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). In fact, the Kuwaiti dialect, for example, is closer to the Iraqi dialect of Basrah than to the Omani dialect of Muscat, which is closer to Yemeni than to other Gulf dialects.
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Re: Arabic dialect in Dubai airport and Emirates airlines

Postby Saim » Sun Sep 18, 2022 6:27 pm

Hash wrote:The so-called Gulf dialect is a political attempt to create a common dialect for the members of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council).


Surely they can just use MSA for that?

In fact, the Kuwaiti dialect, for example, is closer to the Iraqi dialect of Basrah than to…


It’s a continuum so it’s natural for adjacent varieties to show similarities, even when they’re classified in different blocs.

the Omani dialect of Muscat, which is closer to Yemeni than to other Gulf dialects.


I don’t believe I’ve ever seen Omani classified as a Gulf dialect. If it is Omani it is by definition not Gulf Arabic.
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